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palaeo·mastodon
\|pālēō, |palēō+\ noun
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from pale- + Mastodon
: a genus of primitive proboscidean mammals of the Oligocene of Egypt that are characterized by a long skull, short tusks, a long lower jaw, 22 molars, and a body about half as large as that of the Indian elephant and are commonly regarded as ancestral to the mastodons |